The dairy industry receives tens of billions in federal subsidies each year, and then dumps $100 million back on congress to solidify their position and earn even more favorable treatment from Congress. Really nasty system we have.
That joke’s so old it’s in a Benny Hill song.
She said she’d like to bathe in milk, he said, "All right, sweetheart, "
And when he’d finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said, "D’you want it pasturize? 'Cause pasturize is best, "
She says, “Ernie, I’ll be happy if it comes up to my chest.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_(The_Fastest_Milkman_in_the_West)
You can declare war on it all you want. It’s not going away no matter what it’s called. Seems like a real waste of money to be arguing about it.
But if they can kick down at it, slow it down, and force all the brands to rebrand and rename their products, they might scare some people away from it for good and just make others ignore it due to confusing or unfamiliar naming.
I don’t think you’re giving people much credit. The fact they accepted these drinks as it is to begin with speaks a lot for habit
I’ll just make my own damn oat milk! What is it Oats, water, a blender and cheese cloth?
Don’t know about you, but I’m not going to start buying liquid milked from a cow, and stop buying liquid that was milked from a bunch of almonds, just because cow-milkers won’t let almond-milkers say “milk”. The non-dairy producers will just get creative and name their stuff something else, like Malk
Oh dang, I kind of want to buy Malk just because it’s fun to say. It’s like how every time I buy those frozen fake beef tips (Gardein? idk), we pronounce be’f as beff (rhymes with Jeff) and it makes me laugh. Gonna have some beff and malk for dinner. Advertisers have such an easy job with me, stg. Just make something good and call it something stupid and I’m in.
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You’re welcome to buy anything you want, but calling everything milk just because it’s a white liquid still seems silly to me.
That’s because language is silly, it’s called milk because it’s the act not the end product. Hence MILKING the cow. Except animals aren’t the only things that can have a milking process applies to them.
Dairy industry can fuck right off!
Big dairy’s collusion with the US government is a much deeper issue than anyone suspects.
Here’s a good read on it, I wish everyone knew about this:
tl;dr The US government is partnering with food manufacturers (and Pizza Hut) to increase the amount of cheese in products in order to prop up the dairy industry.
When it comes down to “can oat milk be called milk?” I think the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
FWIW - I consider myself “lactose ambivalent”. I’m not intolerant. :) It just doesn’t occur to me to buy dairy most of the time.
I do enjoy Oat Milk, I wish it didn’t have as much sugar in it as it does. :( It really doesn’t like me though!
The US FDA is a captured organization. The familiar food pyramid was hogwash designed to support the grains industry and led to the obesity epidemic.
When I was a kid it was the 4-4-3-2 plan…
4 servings of fruits or vegetables.
4 servings of breads or grains.
3 servings of milk.
2 servings of meat or protein.
Something I think gets glossed over by most folks is inflation figures effect on food. Things in the inflation index consumer basket, always subsidized. If the government didn’t manipulate the price on these items they’d have to pay out more in pensions and social security payments.
Everything that effects inflation figures is subsidized. Corn gets to double dip. It’s in so many good products and they make gas with it. Our corn is so subsidized that other countries don’t allow it to be imported.
